Learning Environments in remote areas: // Almost no one in the world will deny that children need to have access to meaningful learning experiences if they are to truly gain from these experiences and go beyond rote ...

Uvalic-Trumbic, Stamenka; Daniel, John(Commonwealth of Learning (COL) and Open University Malaysia (OUM), 2016-11)

Promoting equity by opening up higher education has posed challenges to quality assurance and even to the definition of quality in higher education. However, certain fundamental principles underpin all forms of higher ...

2015 deadline for achieving the Education For All (EFA) Goals of Education, revealed many countries were not on track to achieving the education targets rolled out in the Jomtien and reaffirmed in Dakar, Senegal in 2000. ...

The e-Learning initiative at the University was launched in 2001 with the setting up of the Virtual
Centre for Innovative Learning Technologies. Fifteen years later, the initiative has attained a level of maturity where ...

If international online courses are to play a significant role in the expansion of education they must be placed within a global framework of quality assurance and qualifications recognition that inspires confidence.

With more than 250 national languages, and two official languages, English and French, used to run
the affairs of the state, Cameroon is a typical example of a nation with linguistic complexity. In such
a multilingual ...

The volume provides a critique on the functionalities of the ODL system, especially the open universities, with plausible arguments, and touches upon all the crucial aspects of the system broadly. The author takes advantage ...

This is a wide-­ranging, ambitious book that sets out to explore the connectivities between teacher education and the development agenda, in the context of low­ and middle-­income economies. In four distinct sections, it ...

Botswana together with six other countries are taking part in the development of OERs for secondary level education through the William & Flora Hewlett Foundation /COL Partnership Project. A total of twelve officers are ...

Expansion is now the defining trend in the worldwide development of higher education. Some predict that by 2020, 40 percent of the global workforce will be knowledge workers with a need for tertiary qualifications. So the ...

It is my privilege to bring the greetings of the Commonwealth of Learning to this splendid gathering at which we celebrate the stellar achievements of the National Assessment and Accreditation Council over a decade of its ...

Second International Conference on Quality Assurance in Higher Education in Africa, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 17-19 September 2007, Can Invitational Institutional Audits make a Cost-Effective Contribution to Quality ...

Mobile phones have become ubiquitous. Almost anyone who can have a mobile phone has one. The amount of information and access to it has grown exponentially, thereby the potential for using varied resources for instruction ...

This document is a report of the Commonwealth of Learning workshop that was run
by the South African Institute for Distance Education ((SAIDE) for Open Schools
within Commonwealth countries. The workshop took place at ...

The University of the South Pacific (USP) requested the Commonwealth of Learning
(COL) to lead an international panel to review the efficiency and effectiveness of its flexible
learning (FL) education programmes. The ...

This paper 1) proposes both a product and a process to provide access and opportunity to learning, 2) offers a way to encourage the participatory development of appropriate, relevant resources, and 3) shares findings from ...

In countries where quality assurance systems are not well established universities can find it useful to invite external visitation panels to advise them on quality improvement and wider issues. However, these can be costly. ...